Richard,
You were correct to say we've (or at least i've) gone off the deep end. I am struggling daily; treading water in the deep end of the pool but since the scales have fallen from my eyes on my own personal road to Damascus i refuse to go back to the safety of the shallow end.
So let me start by saying i agree with you 100% about The Lone Gunmen.
Your analysis of Back to the Future really excites me. You are 90% there my man. By 90% there i mean to only say you are seeing this the way i did and asking the same questions i was when I first saw the Back to the Future Predicts 9/11 video a few years back. Truthfully havent been the same since. I was shaken to my very core that one of the highest grossing movie franchises of my lifetime (which means EVERYONE has seen it), was a triology of films about TIME TRAVEL which accuretly predicted the single most profound event of my lifetime, Sept. 11th. I needed to look into this myself.
I have since watched the Back to the Future films dozens of times over the past few years, even dissecting the first of the three almost frame by frame. What i have found is astonishing. I have discovered that a pop culture icon (the Back to the F uture movies) tells us how pop culture and media are used to influence the population possibly affecting future events. If you watch close enough you will see the progressive influence of pop culture as promoted through television, radio, music and film over the span of the last 130 years, most especially in the United States, spelled out in the movies. A key to this for me was realizing that nearly everytime Marty time travels he and the Delorean touch film. In the Twin Pines Mall parking lot Marty jumps back in time to 1955 just before the Delorean smashes through 1980's photo devoloping booth. To travel back to 1985 from 1955 Marty drives the DeLorean on a crash corse with a movie theatre (which is playing a film staring Ronald Regan which will be useful knowledge as you read on). In the third film to send Marty to 1885 a 1955 version of Doc chooses a drive-in movie theatre as the perfect spot to jump back in time.
The films show how television was used to put a young handsome man, his beautiful wife and his "fairy tale" life in the white house in the early 60's. It shows how movies and media influenced the young impressionable minds of the baby boomer generation to elect an actor to be the leader of the free world, a thought which was so upsurd it would have been laughable a generation earlier. Just as 1955 Doc Brown literally LOL'ed and asked "Ha! The actor??" when Marty informed him Ronald Regan was the President of the United States in 1985. Back to the future also predicts the coming tragedy of 9/11 and even a crude misogynistic casino owning Donald Trump
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...he-future-writer-biff-is-donald-trump-190408/
Ooops i mean Biff Tannon as being the big man in charge in a dystopian alternate timeline.
There is sooooo much more but for "times's" (ha! See what i did there!) sake i will leave it at that for now. But i did want to answer a few questions you posed because i think they are the right questions to be asking and deserve my best shot trying to answer them (trying being the operative word there). Yes, i believe there a secret order that has foreknowledge of world events years in advance and symbolises them in films. I think there are a variety of ways one might aquire such foreknowledge: contact with entities that exist outside of space and time, some ability to be clairvoyant (i have personally had a handful of quite meaningful experiences that i believe could best be described as synchronistic deja vu that i think are very low level gifts of foreknowledge to significiant events in my own life), and/or being involved in the planning and execution of a 9/11 and this planning and execution taking a lot longer than seems reasonable to someone like you or me but perhaps makes sense on a timeline that stretches beyond a single lifetime. (There was so much occult and astrological symbolism surrounding 9/11 that i believe all three methods are in play here.)
And i also believe yes in ten years we could look back on past skeptiko episodes and find significant patterns. I think the universe speaks in patterns and therefore all reality at all levels is patterened. I think the September 11th Novemember 9th examples you brought up are evidance of this phenomenon.
There are suprisingly many more Sept. 11th (United States) November 9th (Germany) significant events in the 20th century.
Construction of the pentagon began on Sept. 11th. The Benghazi incident occured on Sept. 11th. The 911 telephone prefix became a national emergency dial on Sept. 11th forever making the numbers 911 synonymous with emergency and disaster. And as you mentioned Geroge H.W. Bush's Nwo speech was on Sept. 11th.
The Weimer Republic began in Germany on Nov 9th.
Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch Nov 9th.
The Night of Broken Glass (Nazis breaking the glass of all the store fronts ofJewish owned businesses) Nov 9th
Berlin Wall Fall Nov. 9th.
I had a history professor from Germany that used to thell the class, "If its important in 20th century German history it happened on November 9th."
I have not seen the Back to the Future Myths and Archetypes but am looking forward to checking it out. Thanks for mentioning it.
Lastly, i realize i just dropped a lot of insanity on the forum here and apoligize if its too far out there. Like i said i swim WAY in the deep end and i dont think there are many others swimming on the crazy side of the deep end of the reality pool where im at.